News and Analysis on Global Agri-Tech Innovation, Investment and Regulation
As fertiliser prices surge following geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East, UK growers are under pressure to cut input costs without sacrificing yields. A new on‑farm collaboration between crop intelligence company Messium and a Northamptonshire grower...
Animal Agtech Innovation Summit 2026
Increasing demand for protein meets a complex and stressed supply chain, as disease pressures and geopolitics push the animal protein market to innovate
Miraterra is piecing together a complete soil analytic software service, with the help of capital funding and its acquisition of Trace Genomics
The agtech company is helping specialty crop growers and operators make sense of their farming operations and where improvements can be made
Château Puybarbe teams up with Finland’s Kuva Space to bring next‑generation space imaging into everyday vineyard management
Investor profile
The world’s only wine‑focused tech investment fund says vineyards are facing agricultural challenges sooner – and more severely – than other sectors. Xinomavro Ventures believes that makes them the ideal proving ground for new ag innovations
New UK Agri-Tech Centre CEO Steve McLean says the industry is entering a defining period that demands bigger thinking, harder commercial focus, and technologies proven on real farms, not just in labs
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) company Kraft Heinz works with farmers to adopt sustainable farming practices and deploy digital farming technologies
The UK’s flagship farm‑payment scheme has been overhauled into a more streamlined, delivery‑focused model. But will SFI26’s push toward measurable, on‑farm action transform precision agriculture into a practical necessity for British farmers?
In February 2026, Valmont Industries added a member to its board of directors, while tech companies Vivent Biosignals and ProducePay welcomed ag veterans to their organisations
Investor profile
As agtech investment cools and AI dominates attention, Better Food Ventures is betting on digital tools, physical AI, and smarter data governance to unlock real value for the farm sector
Agtech start-up Agro-AI is positioning itself as the missing link between growers’ current irrigation systems and precision agriculture
With sugar beet under pressure in France’s climate‑stressed Grand Est region, the French MMRV specialist teams up with beet producer Cristal Union and the University of Reims to harness AI, primary data and a farm ‘digital twin’ to accelerate the...
CNH Capital launches Europe’s first parametric leasing protection service as it moves to safeguard farmers facing climate-related risks
Can technology used to fight Covid be the next best defense against a livestock disease outbreak?
Digital farming app Numanac is now available via a public release, after securing a waitlist of 3.1 million acres of farmland across the globe
The transfer of Agrimetrics’ satellite analytics technology to Trinity AgTech has been hailed as a victory for innovation continuity – but critics argue it signals the collapse of the UK’s ambition to build an open, national farm data platform akin to...
Start-up profile
Spun out of Founders Factory and Nesta’s venture builder programme, UK-based Regeno has pivoted from helping small farms access subsidies to tackling the broader challenge of compliance and record-keeping. CEO Sven Poppelman explains how the company’s...
Innerplant is scaling its technology expanding across U.S. soybean acres in 2026, as the company explores further domestic and foreign expansion and additional crops
AIC sets date for new sustainability scheme, ForFarmers in alliance with Bunge
UK start-up ProtonDx, creator of the Dragonfly platform, hopes to redefine animal health diagnostics. After developing rapid molecular testing in human medicine, the Imperial College London spin-out saw a critical gap in agriculture – where waiting days...
Are integrations a key part of boosting agtech adoption?
The partnership combines Trapview’s AI-powered pest monitoring and forecasting technology with Doktar’s holistic digital agronomy platform, aiming to inspire climate-smart, sustainable food systems across Europe, MENA, and beyond
A new review reveals that Europe’s agri-food sector is barely tapping into the potential of Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs), despite their promise to accelerate digital transformation
Proveye wins European Space Agency funding to deploy ProvVari – a precision fertiliser platform designed to cut costs, boost yields, and curb emissions across Europe’s pasture-based dairy and beef systems
The UK firm has revamped its Skippy Scout platform with a redesigned interface and new indexing tools – aiming to give farmers and agronomists higher-resolution crop data than satellites can deliver
As climate volatility intensifies, insurer Willis Towers Watson is deploying cutting-edge data and crop simulation models to deliver parametric insurance solutions that promise faster payouts and broader coverage for farmers and agribusinesses worldwide
The UK’s largest supermarket is expanding its environmental baselining programme and calls for consistent standards to help farmers capture soil, water, and nature data at scale – critical for resilience and sustainability
COP30
The Gates Foundation was one of many organizations making large commitments to support farmers and the agrifood system at COP30
Start-ups
As climate volatility threatens global food security, GreenAnt’s AI-powered platform Desidera aims to turn radar satellite data into real-time insights that help farmers boost productivity and anticipate disasters – even when the skies are clouded
As Digital Matter marks 25 years of innovation, CEO Loic Barancourt reflects on the milestones that transformed connected farming – and the technologies set to redefine it again
Backed by strategic investors including Enza Zaden and Harvest House, Netherlands-based Source.ag’s latest funding round highlights demand for AI tools that deliver measurable, daily value to greenhouse operators
Europe’s livestock sector is ready to transform - but progress is being held back, claim industry players
New financing model aims to catalyze $200M in private sector lending across five African nations
From mushroom waste to blockchain traceability, the Warsaw Accelerator hub is supporting a new wave of EU-based innovators with financing and strategic advice
Dimitra and coffee union NACCU launch tech-driven compliance platform for over a million smallholders
World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit London 2025
Virginia-based Helios AI is using multiple agents to help procurers purchase commodities at the right time for the right price, as volatility continues to ripple across the supply chain
French company MyEasyFarm will provide advanced measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) services for bio-fertiliser producer Gaïago’s Soil Carbon programme
Satellite connectivity is empowering farmers in remote regions, but these growers must rely on correction services if they plan to use agtech innovation like robotics effectively
Crop supply intelligence company Acclym ‘speaks the corporate sustainability language’, says CropX CEO Tomer Tzach, and brings significant customers like AB InBev, Nestle, General Mills, and McCain Foods to CropX’s agronomic farm management platform
Golden Harvest Seeds’ mobile app is putting agronomist advice in the hands of farmers
British company Permia Sensing received the Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership Innovation Award from Innovate UK for its technology to monitor red and black palm weevils in palm plantations in Ghana, as the agtech start-up prepares to scale
Digitizing financial services and opening up investment opportunities in farmland can help both growers and investors
Connectivity is agtech’s backbone, with companies like communications provider Viasat offering services to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud, empowering automation, field monitoring, and more
BinSentry is fueling its mission of digitizing the animal feed supply chain with a fresh round of venture capital funding, as the agtech company looks to Brazil for growth
A report reveals a rise in adoption of 3D printing in the agriculture sector
Bushel’s chatbot is providing another way for agronomists to stay connected with their farmer customers
Growers have another option to gain weather-related field data, courtesy of an Omron weather sensor
TerraBlaster digs into soil health metrics with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Growers Edge is bolstering its financial services and digital platform with a robust merger and acquisition (M&A) strategy, including the purchase of FarmTest and Aquaoso Technologies